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In tallahassee. and i spent some time earlier with florida governor rick scott in the emergency management room, and he was worried about things like this. these 40-pound tree limbs, imagine that coming at you 100 miles an hour, hurricane-force winds. the good news in all of this, though, tallahassee did not take the direct hit. the storm sort of curved around tallahassee. but we did see throughout the day tremendous wind gusts, rain bands, and just as i say that, more wind is picking up now. bu...

And i spent some time earlier with florida governor rick scott in the emergency management room, and he was worried about things like this. these 40-pound tree limbs, imagine that coming at ah 100 miles an hour, hurricane-force winds. the good news in all of this, though, tallahassee did not take the direct hit. the storm sort of curved around tallahassee. but we did see throughout the day tremendous wind gusts, rain bands, and just as i say that, more wind is picking up now. but these streets, ...

Saying you still cannot come back to these neighborhoods. we also have to tell you there has been some looting going on in downtown panama city beach but we did talk to a sheriffs official who said they have that under control and do have people under arrest tonight. >> your word is a good one, perilous. thank you very much. nick valencia joins us now in tallahassee. nick, good evening to you. how badly was tallahassee hit? >> reporter: don, were not seeing the catastrophic damage that panama ci...

But we did talk to a sheriffs official who said they have that under control and do have people under arrest tonight. >> your word is a good one, perilous. thank you very much. nick valencia joins us now in tallahassee. nick, good evening to you. how badly was tallahassee hit? >> reporter: don, were not seeing the catastrophic damage that panama city beach or mexico beach saw, but we are seeing major damage like this. big trees that have blocked roadways. most of the problem has been in these ne...

Lets turn now to kristin dahlgren joining us from hilton head, south carolina. krist kristin, the storm is making its way to where you are in south carolina. looks like the winds are picking up. >> reporter: i mean, its nothing like what kerry saw yesterday, but michael really still going to be a dangerous, dangerous storm as we go through today. weve got these tropical storm force winds gusting higher than that. thats going to cause some tree limbs to go down, potentially some trees to go down....

Needed to be rescue and put in danger. >> well, so many people who today are trying to now find loved one, and some of them separated because the communications are down and especially the verizon phone system is offline. you can see over my shoulder what 155-mile-an-hour winds do. it may be that a tornado came through here. im at a boat marina which has been crushed. lets look at the shots above as the drone is flying over. you can see the damage here. there have been a steady stream of people ...

Side. just beyond this is the beach. and were still seeing some very, very strong storm surge just a few feet from this house on the other side. we could not venture on to the right side, because what appeared to be some kind of a gas or water leak was there and we didnt want to go too near that. you go down this street, wolf. still a lot of danger with downed power lines. you can see the first responders way down there. >> brian, thank you very much. brian todd, panama city beach, for us. lets ...

>> reporter: we have seen tree limbs flying through this area and we want to go to brian, i havent seen anything like this in the last several hours, this is as bad as its been, give us a sense of where things stand where you are? >> reporter: john, it is every bit as bad here, i mean the violence that youre looking at, with the storm just rocking these trees and power lines. is just amazing to look at. and were just getting another incredible burst of wind here, as this storm starts to make law...

Hes concerned these tree limbs can turn into life threatening projectiles, just to see how massive these trees are that line the main thorough fares. you may say florida is used to this severe weather but not storms like this. the city of tallahassee put out than their verified twitter account they have not seen a storm like this in a century. and we are seeing those wind gusts and rain bands in fits and starts right. right now weve been lucky to not get any rain but the wind is picking up. thes...

We saw last year. the forecast takes it on shore landfall sometime right after the lunch hour. hurricane centers has it at 145-mile-per-hour winds. thats a strong category 4. and then it slowly weakened even at 10:00 a.m. tonight, still a hurricane over south central georgia. look at all the lightning strikes. thats why we know its intensified. we have aircraft flying through it. the pressure still dropping. the storm is getting stronger and all of the heavy rain bands are moving on shore. time ...